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Teacher Efficacy in a Self-Access Lounge #702

Sun, Nov 22, 10:05-10:30 JST | Video Playback 8
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The presenters’ university’s self-access lounge offers an opportunity for intercultural community-building and English-speaking practice outside the classroom. English Chat Time (ECT) sessions are supervised by full-time teachers, but mainly conducted by international teaching assistants (TAs), who are not required to be from English-speaking countries. This presentation analyzes the ECT program from the perspectives of the teachers who are contractually required to oversee the sessions, suggesting ways to improve teacher efficacy in other self-access conversation lounges.

Jamie Purdon

Jamie Purdon

Seikei University
Jamie Purdon is a full-time lecturer at Seikei University in Tokyo. His main research areas are learner autonomy, vocabulary acquisition and computer-mediated communication.
Quenby Hoffman Aoki

Quenby Hoffman Aoki

Seikei University
Quenby Hoffman Aoki teaches at Seikei University in Tokyo. She is Coordinator of the JALT Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE) SIG and a member of the Diversity and Equity Practices (DEP) Committee.